PHILADELPHIA – General Tom Coughlin has driven the Giants and brainwashed them, and now it is time for him to take his undermanned Big Blue army into battle on the enemy’s battlefield.

It is General Tom and the Giants against the world, and no one expects them to come out alive.

“We have to win this football game to set our identity in the National Football League this year,” Jeremy Shockey said.

“All Things Possible” is Kurt Warner’s life story. So he is the poster boy for All Things Possible. It must stand as the 2004 Giants’ mantra, starting today against the Eagles when the Coughlin Era begins.

“You can accomplish so much if you believe that you can accomplish it,” Warner said. “If you don’t believe it, it’s hard to accomplish some of those things and it’s hard to reach greatness, and so, that has to be the mindset of this football team, that all things are possible.”

Even if outsiders think you will never be the same again. Even if the offensive line is supposed to be as offensive as the defense.

All Things Possible.

“Our starting quarterback lived the exact dream that we’re trying to make happen this year,” Jim Finn said. “No one picked the Rams that year. Who was Kurt Warner? And all of a sudden he’s the Super Bowl MVP. I just think that anything is possible.”

General Tom and the Giants Against the World.

“How can you not like it when there’s no expectations?” Warner said. “When nobody expects you to do anything. When nobody gives you a chance. I mean, what better place in the world to be than to go out and try to prove people wrong?

“Try to show people that what they think or their opinion isn’t necessarily the truth, that we can accomplish anything; that all things are possible with that mentality and with that drive. I’ve been there a number of times, and there’s no greater feeling to reach the top than when you come from a position like that. That’s the opportunity that this season presents to this team, and it’s an exciting one.”

So the quarterback who came from nowhere and the head coach who is everywhere try to take the Giants somewhere following the disgrace of 4-12.

“I’m sorry it became necessary to make a change, but I think we made the right change and I think he’s gonna do a real fine job,” Wellington Mara said. “It’s gonna take a while . . . we have a lot of players that don’t know one another, a lot of players I don’t know, new coaches. It takes a while for that to become a mix. How soon that’ll be, I don’t know.

“But I know we’re in good hands.”

Judy Coughlin is certain that her husband of 37 years will turn the franchise around.

“There’s no doubt in my mind,” she told The Post. “He cares and works so hard and has great people around him. It’ll happen.”

She can tell another season is here.

“The look on his face,” Judy Coughlin said, chuckling, “and also when I’m talking to him. I could just tape my answers. He’s not all there.”

Tim Coughlin is just as certain that his father of 32 years will restore The Pride of the Giants.

“He’s just somebody you can believe in,” Tim told The Post. “I think they have the right guy. For some players, it’s a bit of an adjustment getting used to him, but I think at the end of the day, if everybody’s on the same page with the winning aspect of football, I think they’ll see it come to fruition.”

A bit of an adjustment?

“It’s old school.” Tim Coughlin said. “It’s a different generation.”

All Things Possible.

“There’s no greater way to build chemistry than to go into Philly in Week 1 and win,” Finn said.